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The Manor of <strong>Lackham</strong> <strong>Vol</strong> 3 : The Montagu family<br />

George makes an appearance in Samuel Pepys Diary<br />

22 nd January 1662 After musique-practice to White Hall and<br />

thence to Westminster, in my way calling at Mr George<br />

Montagu’s, to condole on the loss of his son, who was a fine<br />

gentleman 161 )<br />

The Montagu and Crouch connection was much more involved than this<br />

however - shortly after Henry married Margaret his brother Edward, as<br />

was seen above, married her sister Anne and,<br />

both brothers came to enjoy the expertise and friendship of<br />

Ralph Freeman, the widowed husband of Joan, a third Crouch<br />

sister. Freeman….. handled many of the brothers’ routine<br />

business affairs before dying during his mayoralty in 1633-4<br />

162<br />

Henry gave Margaret the manor of Hanging Houghton for her life in his will<br />

as well as<br />

Hartford House in Canons Row now called Manchester House<br />

whereupon I have bestowed great cost and made it a fitt<br />

habitation for a Nobleman for that my now wife hath a special<br />

liking thereto and her love to me and my children hath very well<br />

deserved of me 163<br />

161 Smith, Rev JA (1855) Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys FRS <strong>Vol</strong> 1 p250.<br />

Smith’s footnote states that “Henry Montagu, first earl of Manchester, had numerous<br />

issue by his first lady; but George here mentioned was the eldest son of Margaret<br />

Crouch, the earl’s third wife” , In his footnote to Pepys’ entry for 7 th March 1660 (p33)<br />

Smith notes that George was “later MP for Dover and father of the first earl of Halifax”<br />

162 Quinell, B (2008) Montagu, Henry, first earl of Manchester (c 1564 – 1642) Oxford<br />

Dictionary of National Biography, OUP online edition<br />

(http://www.oxforddnd.com/view/article.19020 requires subscription)<br />

163 Huntingdon archives M71/3/1/3<br />

43

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